International Advisory Group

The International Advisory Group, which meets every year in December, advises SOLUTIONS on various technical aspects. It consists of internationally-acclaimed experts in the field of urban planning and design, transport and land use planning, mathematical modelling of urban systems, and urban economics. Its members are:

Kees Christiaanse
Professor, Polytechnic University of Zurich. He is an architect planner with special interest in the interface between town planning and architecture and is also the Director of KCAP, a well known firm of architect planners with wide experience of large-scale urban development projects in the Netherlands.

John Douglas Hunt
Professor, University of Calgary, Canada. He is a world-renowned expert on the mathematical modelling of transport-related aspects of human behaviour. His primary areas of focus include the interaction between transportation and land use, micro simulation and stated response techniques for estimation of model parameters.

Bruce James
Director, Transport Planning, Queensland Government, Australia. He specialises in the development of innovative land use and transport initiatives designed to address the problems of outer city suburban development.

Roderick J Lawrence
Professor, CUEH, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is trained as a town planner and is now working at the Centre for Human Ecology and Environmental Science at Geneva University . He has extensive international work experience and his current research focus is the human ecology of settlements.

Lars Lundqvist
Professor of Spatial Systems Analysis, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He specialises in research into the systems analysis of transport and settlement patterns.

Marco Ponti
Professor of Transport Economics and Planning, Politecnico University of Milan, Italy. He has an extensive experience of transport research and studies, economic evaluation of projects, and transport plans and policies.

Michael Southworth
Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning and Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley. His areas of research are urban design, suburban development, and new urbanism.